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Re:The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials i... by pc86 on Monday February 06, 2017 @08:55AM (#13579406)
Someone who equates the Fed to Soviet-era economic planning misunderstands more than just how the Fed manipulates rates.
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Re:The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials i... by lend000 on Monday February 06, 2017 @01:54PM (#13582683)
Mechanism aside, do you actually believe it's different? A price control is a price control, and it distorts information in the market, which is normally represented by price. I'd highly recommend you read up on the influences of the last boom and bust: https://admin.fee.org/files/doclib/houseunclesambuiltbooklet...
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